Bright

People place too much value on material things and on living the perfect, shiny life. When we strive to be beautiful for society we forget to be beautiful for ourselves, which may not be the same as what everyone thinks beauty is.

Everything is bright and clean and shiny. Color-coordinated alphabetized sorted by size. Not a speck of dust not a hint of gray not the smallest tear. All is vibrant and new fresh from plastic wrappings disinfected, already inspected nothing is old and nothing is dull No mistakes no deviation from the plan All is so beautiful, clean, and right nothing torn Everything bright.

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